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Sweet Tea?

Sweet tea I think is the same as iced tea and my hubs lives on that stuff, he loves it. He always forgets when we are in Washington, USA that they serve their iced tea sugar-less and he has to add it in. Anywhere here in Canada (at least on the west coast) it is always full of sugar.

As for the other foods....collard green, grits....never had them and have never seen them anywhere around here. I have no idea what fried hand pies are.

Canada is known for poutine and maple syrup. Growing up in Eastern Canada, a restaurant breakfast menu always included a Denver omelet sandwich but when I moved to the west coast, I never saw it on any restaurant menus. Its interesting how country/region can vary in what foods/recipes are prevalent.
 
bcgal00 said:
Sweet tea I think is the same as iced tea and my hubs lives on that stuff, he loves it. He always forgets when we are in Washington, USA that they serve their iced tea sugar-less and he has to add it in. Anywhere here in Canada (at least on the west coast) it is always full of sugar.

As for the other foods....collard green, grits....never had them and have never seen them anywhere around here. I have no idea what fried hand pies are.

Canada is known for poutine and maple syrup. Growing up in Eastern Canada, a restaurant breakfast menu always included a Denver omelet sandwich but when I moved to the west coast, I never saw it on any restaurant menus. Its interesting how country/region can vary in what foods/recipes are prevalent.
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Yes! Bless Canada and poutine!
 
I was born and raised in Georgia (and live here now!) and pretty much the ONLY tea around here is SWEET TEA. I am the crazy oddball though... I hate all tea. I think it tastes awful not matter what. Hot tea, sweet tea, unsweet tea... it doesn't matter. I won't drink it.

But GRITS... I do enjoy those! They do need plenty of butter, though, or they are super bland.
 
Yum Tea! I brew a pot of green tea lemon every morning and the remainder of the pot chill to drink unsweetened
 
I'm from NJ and we always call it Iced Tea too. I like it unsweetened - and cannot stand the powdered/crystal stuff ... but it was always in my house growing up. I have an Iced Tea maker that I use to brew fresh tea. Then my family can add what they want to it -lemon, sweetness. I do know all about Sweet Tea from inlaws and visiting the south though.
 
It's called Iced Tea here, and I can't stand the taste. I've learned to ask for Hot tea (steaped) but I like mine with a little bit of milk (I don't drink coffee).

Being a Canadian we have our milk in bags and our Smarties candies are like M&M's, what you call Smarties (round little candies, that many kids pretend are pills - why do they do that???) we call them Rockets - and those are my Favourite!
A local restaurant just started serving a pulled pork poutine. Oh my goodness it's heaven in a bowl!:drool

Ketchup chips and Salt & Vinegar chips I hear they don't have them in many of the States. Those are my favourite flavours.
 
I grew up around Lexington KY and the only way for tea was sweet (basically drinking sugar).

I moved about 2 hours north and went out to eat went my husband (right after we got married); ordered a tea and about gagged when I took a drink. I asked the server if they had sweet tea and was told there was sugar on the table. There is a big difference between "sweet tea" and tea with sugar added after brewing.

I love that more restaurants are now carrying sweet tea.
 
I don't think I have ever in my life ordered tea that I didn't say "sweet tea, please". I think most places you have to specifically say if you don't want it sweet. And I am one of those that goes to McDonald's just to get a large sweet tea. I'm mostly a coffee drinker, but when we go out I always have sweet tea. I do make it at home fairly often, too...brewed with tea bags or sun tea.

And I love collard greens!!

Tanyia said:
Don't think I know what that "Oh, bless your heart, honey" means! lol I noticed they also say buggy here instead of cart at the grocery store lol.
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DH and I have this argument a lot. I say buggy, he says cart (he is from IN). It drives him crazy to hear it called a buggy lol.
 
I grew up outside Pensacola, FL where @AnneofAlamo said she had sweet tea. Most places around here make a good sweet tea, but no every place! LOL Lots and lots of places make their tea with WAY too much sugar, so it's almost like syrup. It takes away the entire tea experience. My mom makes THE best sweet tea, and even unsweetened tea - it's not bitter and is just smooth and yummy. Today Jay took me out for lunch and we both ordered half and half teas - that's half sweet, half unsweet. That's how we combat the too-sweet-syrupy tea at the restaurant. It was REALLY sweet still, so we both asked for waters and cut it down further. LOL

I know what fried pies are - my mom also calls them fritters. She likes to make them with apples, pears, and peaches.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE cheese grits. I will take just buttered and salted grits, but my fave is cheese grits. When my mom is getting extra fancy, she makes nassau grits, which have bacon and onion and green peppers with a tomato sauce. It's super yummy.

You could get me to go on and on and on about my mom's food. If you're friends with me on Facebook, you've likely already seen the meals my mom prepares, and they are definitely Southern to the core. And if you aren't friends with me, why not? Check me out here: Cheryl Ashcraft You know, just in case you want to see how some of the South lives. Hee hee
 
I only like hot tea, not cold tea. hold the milk/cream/sugar. My kids and hubby like Iced or "Sun" Tea.

We drink "pop" in Iowa, and the stores have carts. ;)
 
sweet tea IS a thing but nobody in my house like it. WE LOVE ICED UNSWEETENED Tea!
 
First time I had sweet tea was a bbq place near Phoenix. It was so good but so sugary! I have no idea if it's good sweet or not lol I don't drink iced tea as often anymore. I love hot tea (Tazo Awake) with cream and stevia. It's my favorite.

Also, love collard greens and grits. I don't eat grits anymore though since I went low carb. But even so, I can't find it in any local stores. The local Trader Joe's used to have grits that I could make at home (not instant) and they stopped stocking it. Only place I can enjoy grits (even the cheese grits) is at Cracker Barrel.
 
I don't drink tea unless it has sugar in it. But then again. I hardly drink tea. So I didn't have time to learn to drink it "normally": just like it is. Because that's the normal in my country.

GlazeFamily3 said:
But GRITS... I do enjoy those! They do need plenty of butter, though, or they are super bland.
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gonewiththewind said:
I LOVE LOVE LOVE cheese grits. I will take just buttered and salted grits, but my fave is cheese grits. When my mom is getting extra fancy, she makes nassau grits, which have bacon and onion and green peppers with a tomato sauce. It's super yummy.
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But grits. I have a lot to say about them and none of them are positive.
Let's just say I had a waitress who was as happy and cheerful about them as these two. So I ordered it, because fun! A different thing to try! And probably good, right?
After one bite, not even swallowed, this was me. It's the kind of food to have nightmares about.

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berniek said:
But grits. I have a lot to say about them and none of them are positive.
Let's just say I had a waitress who was as happy and cheerful about them as these two. So I ordered it, because fun! A different thing to try! And probably good, right?
After one bite, not even swallowed, this was me. It's the kind of food to have nightmares about.
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Bwahahahahaha!

I generally don't eat grits at a restaurant. Sorry, I just don't. Usually they are undercooked or overcooked, unsalted, and just plain yuck. So I can completely understand your reaction.
 
jk703 said:
I doubt anyone makes it from tea bags for a BBQ up here
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When I worked at Red Lobster, I used to make the iced tea. Real Tea, brewed up, and a lot of ice added in! When my new co-worker made it one day, she added in a whole lot of sugar! She was from Georgia. It totally confused all the guests....

Tanyia said:
I noticed they also say buggy here instead of cart at the grocery store lol.
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In New England it's a carriage. Which really threw me off the first time!

Tree City said:
When living in Texas, employees would say "I appreciate you" instead of "thank you" and it really confused me, a Northerner lol
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In New England, to end a transaction, it was "You're Good" or "It's Good". The first time I was so so confused! Like, why am I good?
 
I'm from Alabama and there is always sweet tea in my house made by myself. When we lived in Wisconsin, I had one mishap ordering iced sweet tea. I didn't know it would not have sugar until I tasted it. From that point on, I made my own unless we were out at Texas Roadhouse. Once Chick Fil got their location open in Madison, WI, I would buy tea from there since it is a franchise and have pretty good sweet tea.

gonewiththewind said:
Bwahahahahaha!

I generally don't eat grits at a restaurant. Sorry, I just don't. Usually they are undercooked or overcooked, unsalted, and just plain yuck. So I can completely understand your reaction.
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I grew up on grits! Every morning my mom or dad made us grits, eggs, and bacon. By 8 years old, I was making them myself. I don't eat any of them much lately, but I would make them for my son when he was a little younger (4 yrs old now) for breakfast and now he will ask for "grips" (lol!) and bacon a few times a week.
 
Oh @gonewiththewind I want your Momma to feed me! Just take out those green peppers from the grits please. I make a jar of sun tea that becomes iced tea which gets enough stevia to be sweet tea every other day. If I'm out south of MD I'll ask for my tea half and half cause I know it's gonna have real sugar. I rarely order iced tea around here cause it's almost always unsweetened and weak.

Now grits! I was born in Philadelphia PA and didn't come to grits until adulthood. I love em...but only homemade and yes with butter and sometimes cheese. All those dark greens like collard greens/kale etc only taste good when cooked the southern way...and I'd be at a cardiologist if I ate them often. But once in a while? oh yeah, swimming in pot likker. There's a BarQue place outside of DC that has it all, including peach cobbler. I'd melt in southern heat if I lived down there but the food can sure be yummy.

I push a grocery 'cart', and go to 'the store' though my Massachusetts raised dil goes to 'the market' and i always think she means a farmers' market like the big one down in Raleigh/Durham. I'm always disappointed that it's not.
 
I'm not a tea drinker either way sweet or un-sweetened... but I know my Mom used to make a huge jug of sun tea every day in the summer and she loved it. Pretty sure she drank it without sugar.
 
Oh and my family loves grits and eggs, but I had never had grits until I was about 35ish and my MIL made them once when we were camping with her. Yummy!
 
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